Vol. 2, Issue #8 ~ August '06

A Special Time !

 

It was August 4, 2005 when Professional Dreamer
was set in print for the first time!

Within days, it spread to 22 bookstores in its area, attracted media attention, distributors and started its way around the world. During this time, all monies required for printing, editing, design and distribution were manifested so that 100% of proceeds could be given to the “Run for the Cure.”

Today, our community can be proud to say that we support numerous children’s charities, animal rescue organizations and peace missions! We are a worldwide community, growing at a phenomenal rate, and not by marketing or advertising, but by word-of-mouth!

In celebration of this special time, I wish to call on all of you to submit your experiences and stories to the upcoming publication, “A Dreamer’s Path:” a new book highlighting the insights and “ah-hah” moments of Professional Dreamers around the world!

It’s time to inspire many more people to Dream, Dare, Do!

Please take a moment to record what you have told me in so many calls and emails. Don’t be concerned with how you write. Selected submissions will receive full professional editing and I will work closely with you to write and revise and create the best reflection of your experience.

I know that many of you have a calling to share in a greater way. Take this opportunity to step forward and share as only you can.

To complete the circle of sharing, every contribution will receive an autographed copy of Professional Dreamer along with a personalized inscription that captures my insights into your experience.

You will find submission information, story ideas and suggested word length on the “Share Your Story” link:

http://www.professionaldreamer.com/share.html

Let’s do all we can this month to share, give, celebrate and awaken many more minds to higher possibilities — change the world one dream at a time!

“To change the world, love you. If you will love you, you will love me.”

Salesmanship for The Soul

Have I Got a Deal for You!

Imagine: it’s late at night. You turn on the television and find yourself tuned into the shopping channel. Art Slater, master salesman, is staring you in the face with his infamous mischievous look.

Art leans into the camera for a full face shot, points his finger right at you and looking like a mockery of “Uncle Sam,” says:

Interested in unworthiness?

Listen to this folks: if you like work, you’re going to love unworthiness! Nothing takes more work! Unworthiness is pure survival! It’s utterly exhausting. It takes so much mental strength to maintain a sense of unworthiness that’s you’ll be left absolutely shattered, every single day of your life!

So, what do you say folks? Interested in unworthiness?

Well, hold on to your hats ‘cause there’s more…Oh yes! With unworthiness, you get to worry. You get to stress. You get to feel like a spring wound so tight that if you let go you’ll bust the planet.

And here’s the best part…you can be unworthy just like that—snap your fingers folks! It’s just that easy. In fact, most veterans of unworthiness will tell you that all it takes is maybe one or two small life experiences to feel absolutely crushed and useless…and hold on…for the rest of your life! That’s right folks! Once you get a hold of unworthiness, you can feel unworthy for years, decades, even an entire century!

Okay, okay, I know what you’re thinking…with so many bonuses included with unworthiness, who wouldn’t want it? You’re absolutely right! Recent statistics show that 80% of all people feel unworthy. Well, let me tell you something. In my experience, it’s more like 99%. Unworthiness is one hot ticket item! Everybody’s doing it! If you’re not feeling unworthy, you are truly missing out!

Now, I could stop right here knowing you’re already sold on unworthiness, but I want you to be absolutely sure about your decision to live in hell. So, I’m going to tell you about all the extras that make unworthiness a truly unbelievable deal!

First, you’ll never be good enough! For what you ask? For anything—no matter how hard you try! With unworthiness, you will always feel like you just can’t do a single thing right—is that not unbelievable?

You see, what unworthy people know is that there’s “special” people and “not special” people. There’s no in between. You’re either special or you’re; well, sort of damaged; something’s wrong with you. So, special people go through life catching the breaks, and unworthy people take one step forward only to be thrown three steps back.

Now, I know what you’re thinking. You’re going to say, “Hey, wait a minute there Art, what’s all this talk about “special” and “not so special” people. I mean, the universe is good. The universe is everyone. Therefore, everyone is good.”

Hey, listen, folks: when you’re unworthy you don’t have to burden yourself with stuff like truth. Not at all! You get to be so completely blinded by a constant struggle to survive and protect yourself that you won’t see anything but personal failings!

And let me tell you this…Do you like purpose? If so, you’ll really go for unworthiness, because when you’re unworthy, you know exactly what your purpose in life is: struggle! That’s your lot in life!

Now, you might be thinking, “Hey, Art, maybe I’m already unworthy? How do I know?” Good question! That’s easy. You see, early in your life someone flat out tells you! That’s right! It’s just that simple. Someone clearly tells you’re not doing things right or they abandon, reject or ignore you. In some way, it’s made very clear that you’re not important and should not express yourself…lest you make a complete and utter mess of things!

Okay, you’re asking, “Why would anyone believe all this?” Oh, I’m glad you asked this. The answer reveals another whopping bonus to being unworthy—others opinions are the only opinions that count. Unworthy people don’t have opinions! They have to earn the right to ask for what they want, speak their mind or express themselves.

Oh and here’s the best part …unworthy people eventually lose the desire to express themselves or completely forget how. They know they’ll only mess up if they do, and that means they’ll lose affection, attention and love!

Isn’t that amazing? Unworthy people get to spend the rest of their lives hiding, and disguising the fact that they’re not good enough, for fear of losing attention, affection and love!

Is unworthiness not the most unbelievable offer you have ever heard folks?

And get this : when you’re unworthy, you get to smile a lot—a great big, fake, “it pains me to do this” smile. Oh, and you’ll pick out your personality each morning like picking out your clothing. You’ll become an actor. You’ll play parts that please people. You see, being unworthy means keeping people happy so they don’t see the “real” you.

And that’s not all! Oh no! You get to constantly do for others, martyr yourself, sacrifice day in and day out, and then, be constantly reminded that others never do for you! And you can count on this! As an unworthy person, you’ll be a very well practiced actor. You’ll teach others how to treat you. You’ll teach others to take advantage of you all the time!

By choosing to be unworthy, you get to go through life second guessing everything you do! You’ll expend enormous amounts of energy calculating people’s reactions to your behavior and making constant people-pleasing adjustments!

(Art waves his hands in the air like an overzealous television evangelist…) You get to be a perfectionist! You get to place exceptional expectations on yourself! You get to feel angry for weeks, guilty for years and frustrated like nobody’s business! You get to work harder than anyone else just to maintain a pathetic level of goodness so no one is tempted to look at what lies beneath your mask!

Hallelujah!

And folks, I promise you, unworthiness will affect every area of your life! It’s the gift that just keeps on giving! If it’s a relationship you’re thinking about, forget it. You’ll run like fire from relationships! Because unworthy people know that if others get close, close to the “real” them, they’ll be disgusted, which inevitably means rejection—loss of affection, attention and love. And, if it’s success you’re thinking about, forget that too! You’ll be so tied in a knot that you’ll never enjoy success even if you ever do manage to attain it, which, let’s face it folks, is unlikely. You’ll either drive yourself into the ground with your constant “trying so hard,” or you’ll discover that you can avoid doing almost anything in life by being unworthy.

Imagine!

I have to say it again …(Art leans into the camera one more time and smiles…) Unworthiness is quite the deal!I wish I could give it away folks, but I can’t. You’ve gotta buy into it!

So, I’m going to make you the deal of a lifetime here, literally! Declare yourself unworthy, right now, and I promise you’ll feel horrible within the next fifteen minutes!

Hey, hey, hey, the phones are ringing off the hook!

Okay, I’ll go one step better! Declare yourself unworthy right now and I’ll also guarantee you struggle and promise you’ll attract one challenge after another in the days ahead!

(Art throws both hands in the air and laughs!) Folks, there is no easier way to screw up your entire life than by choosing to be unworthy! So, don’t delay! (Art moves in closer to the camera…) Just tell yourself you’re not good enough folks and watch the pain and misery start a rollin’ in!

What do you think? It doesn’t seem right somehow to poke fun at me…oopsy…did I say “me?” I guess I was a ring leader on the whole unworthiness thing. I did feel pretty bad about taking up space on the planet for almost 40 years, but what I meant to say was this: somehow it just doesn’t seem right to poke fun at unworthiness…or does it?

Isn’t something so utterly ridiculous laughable? I mean, unworthiness doesn’t make one bit of sense!

If the most talented salesperson in the world came up to you and tried to sell you unworthiness, and you were the most gullible person in the world, would you buy it? Is there even one thing about unworthiness that’s appealing? I don’t think so. And yet, 80% of us have bought into it and worse, we’re still paying for it every single day of our lives.

Listen, I realize there is no way to convince you that in the moment you declare yourself worthy—let go of your well practiced behaviors of self-betrayal, stop hiding your power, agree to honor your likes and interests and stop worrying about what others think—you’ll experience a shift in your energy such that joy will show up in your life and your true relationships will deepen.

I realize there is no way to convince you that the moment you declare yourself worthy new, more meaningful events, people and things will come into your life (rush into your life!) to replace all the unwanted garbage you outgrow and release.

So, I will say to you this: “You must decide for those beliefs that most benefit your life and then find your truth in doing—for it is in doing that we leap from rationality to understanding.” (Professional Dreamer, Pg. 279)

YOU MUST DECIDE …

YOU! No one else can do it for you.

MUST! You cannot function without belief and it makes darn little sense to decide for beliefs that harm your life when you can just as easily decide for beliefs that benefit your life.

DECIDE! Nothing happens until you decide. It’s all about choice! You are unique among all creatures. You can think and think about yourself thinking. You have…let me say this again…HAVE…the power to choose.

Choose.

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“Remember: giving teaches you who you are. When you give, you demonstrate who you are. You witness your beliefs. You fortify and strengthen what lies at the heart of you. In the process, you communicate clearly with higher-level energy; energy quick to respond and transform. It is for this reason that giving is the quickest, surest way to invite an incredible return of energy and attain your heart’s desires.”—Ghalil

ATP: Awakening to Purpose

The next Awakening to Purpose Course starts September 19th, 2006 and is offered at two separate times: 2pm EST ( 7pm LONDON) and 8pm EST. To register, visit http://www.awakeningtopurpose.com

“I would have easily paid $1000 if I had known the results of this program! Ghalil and Anita have absolutely been Godsends to me. My life is permanently changed. I now have the courage to do what I know is right for me."  
~ Clint, on the July Awakening to Purpose Sessions